About
From tool-and-die shop to engineering company.
Founded in 1927 and under new ownership since 2024. The mission has not changed: solve hard problems for serious manufacturers.
25,000
Unique tools built
6,700
Jobs with in-house design work
38,000+
Part models designed since 1997
01 / The Springfield Way
How we operate
Hard problems welcome
The Springfield Way was forged through the Great Depression. We take on the problems that need solving, not just the ones that are easy to quote.
One accountable team
Engineering, project management, and manufacturing stay connected from the first conversation to hardware in service.
The first call is with an engineer
The first conversation is with someone who can solve the problem, not just quote it.
Stay with it
The first fixture is rarely the last. Revisions, repeat hardware, and field support are part of the work.
02 / Why Springfield
One team instead of five suppliers
Most industrial hardware crosses a fragmented supplier chain. Springfield owns the whole path, from engineering through production and every partner in between.
The typical fragmented path
- Customer engineer
- Outside design firm
- Machine shop
- Fabricator
- Testing vendor
- Assembly
- Customer coordinates everything
The Springfield path
One team owns the whole arc — engineering, design, project management, machining, fabrication, assembly, inspection, validation, and field support. One point of contact. One point of accountability.
One point of ownership.
One team accountable for the result.
03 / History → present
Nearly a century, still moving
1927
Tom Aldridge I founds Springfield Tool & Die in Detroit.
Early 1970s
Springfield grows in supporting turbine tooling.
Late 1970s
The company moves to the Upstate of South Carolina, into the region’s manufacturing base.
1980s–2010s
Springfield grows with the Upstate’s industrial customers.
2008
Job records begin counting pieces: more than 500,000 made since.
2024
The Standafer family acquires the company, operating as part of Rincon Group Holdings LLC.
Now
An integrated engineering and manufacturing company building its second century, with 25,000 tools and 85,000+ unique parts built to date.
The design does not have to be finished before we talk.
Bring us a requirement, application, existing tool, photo, sketch, component, or drawing.
Path 1
Talk with an engineer
Describe the application or problem. No drawing needed.
Path 2
Send an RFQ
Have a drawing or spec? Start an RFQ and we’ll send you a secure link to transfer it, so your files stay confidential.